The Ancient Philosophy That Doesn’t Give a F*ck (ft. Ryan Holiday)

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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There’s an ancient philosophy that could actually help you give fewer f*cks, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of it.

Stoicism has been helping people manage their stress and anxiety for thousands of years and today, it’s more relevant than ever.

@ryanholiday is the New York Times Bestselling author of multiple books on Stoicism. He believes that Stoicism is the framework that can help you be a normal person in an increasingly crazy world.

Today’s episode dives into the life-altering benefits of following a philosophy that encourages you to focus on what you can control, and fuck the rest.

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0:00.0	Why is it that a 2,000 year old philosophy suddenly becomes massively popular, selling tens of millions of books,
0:07.6	and garnering millions of adherents around the world in the age of social media?
0:12.4	Why, when made more aware of the problems of the world,
0:15.3	do people seem to be more apathetic than ever? And what keeps the world's most
0:20.0	prominent stoic up at night? These are just a few of the questions that we're going to be
0:24.0	touching upon in today's episode with my good old friend Ryan Holliday. Ryan Holliday is a 10-time
0:30.0	best-selling author, marketing genius, and founder of the Daily Stoic brand.
0:34.4	He is single-handedly brought a school of ancient Greek philosophy to millions of new people around the world.
0:39.6	He's been so successful at marketing the philosophy that his name has become almost synonymous with it.
0:44.4	It's interesting because my books have often been compared to stoicism and people often mistakenly
0:49.5	assume that my background is stoic philosophy and I'm pretty sure that's Ryan's fault. So thank you Ryan.
0:56.3	This episode was fun for two different reasons. One is that I visited Ryan down in Texas and we shot this in his beautiful studio. We actually recorded two
1:04.4	podcasts. I was on his show The Daily Stoic Podcast and the morning and then we
1:08.7	recorded this episode in the afternoon. By the way that episode I did with Ryan is also out today on his
1:14.3	podcast feed if you want to go check it out. The other reason it was fun is because I've
1:18.6	known Ryan for about 10 years and he and I have an easy rapport with each other.
1:22.8	In fact, I think he gets more personal here in this episode than I've ever heard him get in public elsewhere,
1:28.4	as we talk about his family, his regrets, his anxiety, and how he continues to wrestle with the question of how to spend his time well.
1:36.1	But before we begin, I'd like to ask that you take a second and follow and review the show.
1:40.4	It helps us out immensely when reaching out to new guests and putting together
1:43.4	new episodes for you. All right. That's it. On with it. Here is Ryan Holiday.
1:49.2	20 million books sold. Zero Fox given.
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